CFP: Shakespeare and the Classroom (9/12/03; journal issue)

full name / name of organization:

Susan Oldrieve

contact email:

soldriev@bw.edu

X-posted from SHAKSPER

In celebration of 10 years of publication, Shakespeare and theClassroom (http://www.onu.edu/org/shakespeare/welcome.htm) issoliciting essays and studies concerning the teaching of Shakespeare andother early period British authors and texts. Building on the work ofErnest Boyer's Scholarship Reconsidered and the Carnegie Foundation'sCarnegie Academy of Teaching and Learning(http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/CASTL/), and in response to therecent publication of Elaine Showalter's Teaching Literature and EveKosofsky Sedgwick's Touching Feeling, we are interested in starting aregular discussion about the scholarly teaching of early Britishliterature and scholarly writing about teaching.

Some of the questions we hope that contributors will consider are:

What standards should be set for the scholarly teaching of Shakespeareand early British literature and for scholarly writing about suchteaching?

What methods for approaching the scholarship of teaching are mostappropriate for our particular field?

What benefit will accrue to our field by pursuing such scholarship?

What will it take to gain the same respect for the scholarship ofteaching in our field that we give to more traditional forms ofscholarship?

In addition we are, as always, interested in essays discussing thebenefits and applicability of specific classroom approaches toShakespeare and other early British writers.

The submission deadline for the fall issue is September 12, 2003, butsubmissions will be accepted at any time for future issues as well. Allpublished essays will be listed in the MLA bibliography.

Inquiries and essays for consideration should be sent in hard copy orelectronically (the essays preferably as Word documents) to SusanOldrieve, Professor of English, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio44017 email: soldriev_at_bw.edu.